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Rhea Chiles felt the robber's gun pressed against her forehead, but there was no way she was going to become a victim. "You want to die tonight, lady?" the robber asked. "I'm going to shoot you. " Chiles screamed and shouted, "No!" and was able to run to safety. Chiles, the daughter of the late former Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles, crossed paths with a man who police say earlier Wednesday night had already abducted another woman at gunpoint and forced her to drive to several ATMs to withdraw cash across the city.

A brazen, gun-toting robber targeted the same cellphone store in Pompano Beach twice and in one instance told an employee to "call the cops," the Broward Sheriff's Office said. The agency released surveillance video Thursday of the robberies that occurred at Metro PCS, 317 E. Copans Road, and is asking the public to help track down the robber. The first robbery happened shortly before noon on Christmas Day when the man posed as a customer and appeared to be looking at store displays before running up to Yesenia Pupiro, the sales manager, BSO said.

Two women were robbed at gunpoint outside a Fort Lauderdale restaurant late Thursday, police said. The robbery happened shortly before 10 p.m. outside the Olive Garden restaurant at 5550 North Federal Highway, authorities said. The victims, who were believed to be patrons of the restaurant, were walking through the parking lot when the robber approached them. Their purses were taken from them, authorities said. Neither woman was injured during the incident. The robber fled, police said.

A man who stole a woman's Mustang at gunpoint slammed it into a deputy's patrol car, carport and palm tree, authorities said. Upon crashing into the tree, Danny Alford, 18, dashed out of the stolen car and ran for about three blocks in the 4300 block of Northeast Sixth Terrace on Wednesday, according to an arrest report. "He definitely was not giving up," Broward sheriff's Sgt. Ted Taranu said. "Once he hit that tree head-on, he jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot. " But deputies caught up to Alford, of Coral Springs, and took him into custody on charges of carjacking with a firearm, grand theft of a motor vehicle, two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence.

At the Samuel M. & Helene Soref Jewish Community Center in Plantation on Wednesday, the guns and wounded will look real, but it will only be a drill. The campus, at 6501 W. Sunrise Blvd., will host Plantation firefighters and police from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Brodzki Early Childhood Learning Center. Casualties at mass shootings have often been numerous because responders weren't able to reach victims until police stopped a gunman. This exercise's goal is to aid "victims" while the "shooter" is still being pursued by the first officers to arrive, Plantation authorities said.

Broward Sheriff's detectives are searching for the armed man who robbed a waitress in Dania Beach. The victim was working the overnight shift at the International House of Pancakes, 201 S. Federal Hwy., on Aug. 22 when the suspect walked in just before 2 a.m., investigators said. Surveillance video shows the man, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, gray shorts, black shoes and dark baseball cap with a logo on the front and white trim on the brim. He also appears to have black hair and a goatee.

A clerk at a Long Island delicatessen avoided a bullet and then used a machete to scare off a would-be thief, the New York Post is reporting. The Sept. 25 incident happened after a ski mask-wearing gunman burst through the door at the Stop & Shop Deli in the Suffolk County community of Brentwood, the publication reported. When the clerk hesitated after the robber demanded cash, a shot is fired and the clerk quickly grabs a machete from behind the counter and wields it as the gunman retreats.

Maritza Medina lay in grass alongside U.S. 27, vulnerable to her injuries and possibly to an armed man who had just driven at high speed into her Mercedes sedan. Gunman Antonio J. Feliu was in his wrecked and smoldering Mercedes SUV just north of Griffin Road Wednesday, concealed by his air bag and darkly tinted windows , police said . He had shot his estranged girlfriend and her adult daughter in their southwest Miami-Dade home earlier that morning, killing them both, Miami-Dade police said, and he had already fired once while inside his SUV. Three cops out of the scores who responded to a two-county chase and crash on the western edge of Broward County decided they couldn't wait for Feliu to be captured.

Two men were shot late Wednesday and a third was on the run, police said. The shootings took place around 7 p.m. in the 5700 block of Northwest 27th Court, following an argument involving the three men. The gunman and one of the victims ran away, Lt. Greg Solowsky said. "One victim had fallen on 27th Court [and] the other ran northbound to 28th Street," he said. "Both victims were alert, conscious and breathing" when they were taken to a hospital. Detectives were searching streets for the gunman, a weapon and other evidence.

Police have issued an all-clear notice letting people back onto the University of South Florida's health complex after spending about three hours searching for a man spotted carrying a gun on campus, the Tampa Tribune reported. Police said they will continue to search for the man but are confident he is not on campus. To read more, go to the Tampa Tribune .